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AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) - Sheriff's investigators say their work to find those responsible for a shooting outside an events center near Austin that left five wounded, including two critically, has been hampered by uncooperative witnesses.
Mower County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mark May said Monday no arrests have been made in the shooting outside the former Lansing Corners supper club near Austin that now hosts special events.
May says a "rap party" got out of control early Sunday and as security staff broke up the crowd, shots rang out in the parking lot. The chief deputy estimates there were about 200 people in the parking lot.
May says two small-caliber handguns were used in the shooting, but he would not say whether they were recovered.
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Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS) is pleased to announce that Rebecca Kennison, Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, has been assigned as Visiting Program Officer to work on the development of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Association of American Universities (AAU), and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)'s initiative for enabling open access to federally funded research and data, called SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE).
ARL was recently awarded $50,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help develop the SHARE project. SHARE is a joint initiative of ARL, AAU, and APLU to collaboratively build a cross-institutional coordination framework for the long-term management and preservation of—and expansion of access to—the results of academic research. The initiative was made urgent by the February 22, 2013, memorandum from the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directing federal agencies to develop draft plans for the public deposit of research publications and data associated with federal funding.
Kennison will work with lead consultant Greg Tananbaum and ARL Program Director Judy Ruttenberg to coordinate the efforts of four SHARE Working Groups: Technology and Standards; PI Workflow; Repositories; and Communications. Kennison's main role will be to ensure cohesive communication and decision-making input within and among the working groups. In the coming months, she will also work on behalf of SHARE to engage the university, library, research, funding, technology, intellectual property, and publishing communities to develop the project roadmap. While many aspects of SHARE can be implemented now, its vision is ambitious and requires a thoughtful and inclusive implementation process.
"It is an honor to be selected for this position and in a very active way to help develop the SHARE initiative. I believe strongly in the initiative's mission and its goal to maximize the value of research funding, and am looking forward to working with the university, research, funding, technology, intellectual property, and publishing communities to make this policy a success. SHARE will provide universities, especially via interoperable institutional repositories, with an invaluable and cost-effective opportunity to manage, preserve, and expand access to their research and scholarship," said Kennison.
As Director of CDRS, Kennison is responsible for developing the programs and services of the Center and for coordinating these efforts with other CUL/IS divisions. Her primary objective for the Center is to facilitate scholarly research and the communication of that research through technology solutions, and she works with faculty and researchers to address the issues that affect them. Before coming to Columbia in 2007, she was Director of Content Services for Healthline Networks, an online consumer health website. From 2002-2006, she was Director of Production at the open-access publisher, Public Library of Science (better known as PLOS). She has also held positions with Cell Press, SilverPlatter Education, Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell), and Database Publishing.
To learn more about the SHARE initiative, please visit the SHARE webpage.
The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) works to increase the utility and impact of research produced at Columbia by creating, adapting, implementing, supporting, and sustaining innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, data curation, and preservation. The Center engages in extensive outreach, education, and advocacy to ensure that the scholarly work produced at Columbia University has a global reach and accelerates the pace of research across disciplines. CDRS is one of six entities that comprise the Digital Programs and Technology Services branch of Columbia University Libraries/Information Services.
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KARE For Kane Day is set for May 11th
Pride in the community will be shining bright on the second annual KARE For Kane Day scheduled Friday, May 11.More than 45 volunteers already have registered to participate in the "spring cleanup" program to spruce up Kane.The Kane Area Development Center (KADC) and the Kane Area Revitalization Enterprise (KARE), sponsors of KARE For Kane, are seeking 300 volunteers this year.In the first year, a total of 230 volunteers worked on 37 community-improvement projects.Melanie Clabaugh, executive director of the Kane Area Development Center and KARE, is one of the coordinators of KARE For Kane. She is assisted by Kathleen Prosperi, who is an AmeriCorps staff member at Kane Area High School.Clabaugh said the coordinators "now have a model" to use to serve as a guide for KARE For Kane."Last year, we had to start from scratch," Clabaugh said. She said the first KARE For Kane was a "huge success" that hopefully will be duplicated this year."We received so much positive feedback from the community," Clabaugh said in reference to the first KARE For Kane Day. She said the praise came from the "volunteers" and from "those who didn't volunteer.""People saw what we accomplished last year and more people want to take part," Prosperi said.Area residents wishing to volunteer on KARE For Kane this year are asked to register at the Kane Chamber of Commerce office at 54 Fraley St. in Uptown Kane. Residents and groups also may volunteer by visiting the KADC website at www.kanepa.com or by calling the office at 837-6565.While supplies last, volunteers will receive a free T-shirt.Clabaugh said KARE For Kane is "a good way" for local residents to "come together to give back to the community."The one-day program to spruce up Kane begins at 9 a.m. and runs until 7 p.m.-- rain or shine.The Kane Community Center on Fraley Street is the headquarters for KARE For Kane. Volunteers are asked to report to the center for their assignments. Refreshments and a free lunch for the volunteers also will be available at the community center.The KADC also is seeking ideas for possible cleanup projects this year.The project list already includes litter pickup, landscaping at the Kane entrance signs, painting the fence at the tennis courts at Evergreen Park, improving the appearance at the site of the Biddle Street station for the defunct Knox and Kane Railroad, repairs at the skate/bike ramps at Glenwood Park, sweeping sidewalks and various other "spring cleanup" tasks."We need more projects," Clabaugh said. "If someone has an idea for a project, send it our way."The KADC has asked area churches, municipalities, clubs, the school district and other organizations for ideas for cleanup projects.Prosperi said high school students will be among those volunteers working on KARE For Kane projects. She expects about 100 students to volunteer to spend part of the school day working at the various cleanup sites.Prosperi said the project "gives students the opportunity to help their community."See full article by purchasing the March 24 edition of The Kane Republican.


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"Meditation changes the way your mind works," she said. "It changes the way you relate to your own thoughts and views. At some point I was able to realize how I was causing myself my own suffering. … Once you see how you're causing your own suffering, you're pretty inspired to do something about it."
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My wallet is not in my pocket. It should be, it's not. It's on my dresser top. I now can't buy caffeine, let alone food. I allowed myself to become distracted by my tie. I disturbed my routine.
The trick, if you're me, is to make sure that things you might forget are kept right with things that you literally can't forget. When I put my wallet down every night, I put the car key on top of it. Since it is physically impossible for me to drive to work without the key, this means I can't go to work without at least seeing the wallet - and, better yet, seeing the wallet right as I'm picking up stuff to put in my pockets.
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Obama's Problem: Where's the Change?
John McCain has criticized his own party's failures and gone against Republican orthodoxy. Has Barack Obama ever gone against his party's line? He "talks a lot about finding ways to move beyond the bloody battlegrounds of the 'culture wars' in America; the urgent need to establish consensus on the emotive issue of abortion," without ever making a concession to pro-lifers. "Politician Obama's support for abortion rights is the most extreme of any Democratic senator... The fact is that a vote for Mr Obama demands uncritical subservience to the irrational, anti-empirical proposition that the past holds no clues about the future, that promise is wholly detached from experience." READ MORE >
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"Benedict directly challenged an assumption so many Americans make about religion: that it is a matter of private devotion with few public implications. Not true, said the pope. 'Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted,' he told the country's Catholic bishops Wednesday. 'Only when their faith permeates every aspect of their lives do Christians become truly open to the transforming power of the Gospel.' That is a demanding and unsettling standard for the right and the left alike... This is the thinking of a communitarian counseling against radical individualism... Perhaps it is the task of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church to bring discomfort to a people so thoroughly shaped by modernity, as we Americans are. If so, Benedict is succeeding." READ MORE >
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Enterprise Twitter - effectively incorporating Twitter into your organisation
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Twitter has seen phenomenal growth over the last two years and some encouraging success stories.
Charities and non-profit organisations are successfully using it as a low cost channel to raise awareness, money and connect with their stakeholders. Corporations large and small are using it to drive valuable traffic to their websites (Econsultancy included!) and Dell recently announced that it has attributed over $6.5 million in sales to the channel. No small peanuts.
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Our Great Lakes Echo environmental news service once ran an image of a giant Asian carp plucking an unsuspecting toddler from a Lake Michigan beach.
Another time we featured Sarah Palin shooting a carp with an automatic weapon.
We also showcased a giant carp floating above Chicago like the Goodyear blimp. And we revealed the presence of two of the fish in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court.
These reader-manipulated images grew out of our desire to build the greater engagement that all online news sites crave.
The verdict: Humor works.
Engaging readers is what journalism is all about. You can't use the wisdom of the crowds if the crowd isn't there. So when you build it and they don't come, what do you do?
Try poking your readers with a sharp stick and challenging them to interact.
Some may wonder: Is this journalism? At a minimum, features like carp bombs serve the same function as crossword puzzles and comic strips. They bring people into your news community.
But they are more than marketing. They give readers motivation to become aware of the issues you explore in a more serious vein. And if they're not — we link to the serious stories.
But it's a bit like the Daily Show — you need to bring to it an awareness of the news to appreciate Jon Stewart's jokes.
Otherwise you'll never understand why those carp are peering over the shoulders of the Supreme Court justices.
Be warned that reader engagement is not an exact science. Sometimes nothing happens when we throw community engagement efforts against the Echo wall. We've asked readers to submit links to stories elsewhere to help with our aggregation efforts. Rarely do we get one.
And when something works, we're not sure why.
Don't get discouraged when your best ideas flop. You'll be surprised by something else that works. More surprising — and puzzling — is when a failed idea works the second time.
Here are some ideas to spur interaction with environmental news that we use at Great Lakes Echo:
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CARPet bombing.
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Asian carp are hardly sharp sticks. But we used them to stir up engagement. Armed with a voracious appetite, these critters are knocking on the door of the Great Lakes with the potential to devastate the ecosystem that Echo covers. All that's keeping them out of Lake Michigan is an electric barrier at Chicago. And they may have breached that.
After weeks of carp crisis coverage and reports on posturing politicians, we invited readers to submit to our Flickr account images of carp inserted into unusual scenes. We even provided carp images for raw materials.
When the entries rolled in, we dropped one "carp bomb" a week onto Echo's front page. But they also escaped into other media. One newspaper columnist ran our carp bombs in two of his columns.
Another gave us a picture of her downtown and asked us to insert a carp image into it. We ran it on Echo and she ran it in her paper with a story about the threat. We were happy to oblige. We were happier to gain the exposure. To extend the feature's run, we compiled a dozen carp bombs into a gallery linked off our homepage.
So while carp are terrible for our ecosystem, they've been good for us. Chances are your community has the equivalent of our carp — another invasive species or some other ecological terror to poke fun at. Everyone likes to tell a joke. Give them the tools and the encouragement to do so. To ease the technical barrier, offer to do the photoshop work if readers provide the images and the cutlines. Encourage them to share their efforts.
Play on your community's insecurities You know those annoying national media stories that highlight the top 10 "Best of Something" lists? Best bike trails. Greenest roofs. Most energy efficient buildings. How often does your community get mentioned in those?
So play up that omission. Challenge readers to set the record straight with local nominations.
When editors of Outside Magazine listed only one park in any of the eight Great Lakes states as among their favorites, we asked readers to tell us which ones from our region should have been listed.
Write a quiz
People complain about those Facebook quizzes that promise to determine such things as which television character is most similar to their personality. Yet they still take them.
These quizzes give you two shots at engagement. First, ask readers for help building one. Then ask them to take it.
Our first Echo quiz asked, "Which Great Lake are you?" Readers noted that the personality of Lake Superior was cool and inaccessible and, well, superior. And if your favorite beverage was Labatt Blue, your personality may be better suited to Lake Ontario. That was fun, but it didn't scream take me!
So we built another quiz around the question, "Which Great Lakes invasive species is your former significant other?" Readers sent some telling observations of an ex who left their home a mess, spread disease and had the bug eyes of a round goby (that's a fish). Some noted that the purple loosestrife plant is beautiful but expensive to remove, that house sparrows kill other birds and their young and take over their nests and that spotted knapweed is a loner with a toxic personality.
My favorite comment during this quiz-building phase: "My ex is definitely an Asian carp. He is huge, gross-looking and he frequently pops up when I least expect him to. I wish there was an electric fence to keep him away from Michigan. "
Make a map
Marrying data to geography is a quick addition to a news story and often can stand with little additional text. It is particularly helpful on the environmental beat when the sense of place is so critical to the story. Check out the tutorials at google maps.
You can also invite readers to contribute suggestions for map points.
One of our most trafficked stories is about Great Lakes inspired music and bands. An accompanying map pinpoints the Great Lakes connection. The points link to information about the band or song. Readers quickly made contributions. Each week we feature Monday Mashup, a map relevant to our region that we've created or found. Our hope was that readers would also contribute maps, easing the reporting burden. They haven't and I'm puzzled. Maybe we just haven't found the map nerd crowd yet. I still have hopes of engaging them. Maps are a great way to tell an environmental story.
Your physical community likely has a planning agency with mapmakers whose work may not get much attention. Rather then burying these efforts on their hard drives, they may be glad for a public platform. Invite them to contribute. Chances are if it's an issue important enough for bureaucrats to map, you should be reporting it in some manner.
Cover the environment from space
Unusual ways of reporting news engage new readers. When we animated a month's worth of still satellite images for a story about spring runoff on Lake Erie, our daily hits more than doubled.
We tapped into a community of satellite nerds. To them, our use of images taken from space was at least as interesting as what they showed. One sharp-eyed reader even noticed that we had deleted images from certain days. We had to explain those were days with heavy cloud cover, but that was an opportunity for us to demonstrate our responsiveness to engagement.
People revisited that story for months. With any luck, some stayed for the other content.
And we hope to revisit that story later this summer with satellite imagery showing algae blooms fed by the spring runoff shown in the earlier report. NASA's Earth Observatory is a good place to poke around for images, but local universities may be snagging images of your region and help you find appropriate ones.
Insert a poll
Using a third-party polling service like Polldaddy gives you a low-effort interactive feature that can run with a story, multiple stories or as a standing feature. It is a cheap way for readers to weigh in, although we find many comments are gripes about the unscientific nature of Internet polls. We never say the results support the facts of a news story. But we appreciate the engagement.
Ask for help
Reporters have used our staff blog, Catch of the Day, to seek sources, information and story angles. Later this summer we hope to take that concept a step further with another group's documentary while it's under production. Each week we will run excerpts of the footage the producers have shot. It won't be a story, but rather the disjointed building blocks of what will become a story. Our hope is that readers will suggest other people to interview or new angles to pursue. It may build interest in the final product and perhaps reach people who will not otherwise see it.
You could do this with any meaty issue that you commit to over time. And it wouldn't have to be a video. Put up an incomplete story and ask readers to tell you where to fill in the blanks.
Track your impact
Be aware that community engagement flares up in unexpected places and not necessarily where you are hoping — your own site.
Unknown to us, a mountain biking group once fed our RSS feed of recreation stories into its own forum. When a story broke about the threatened closure of a park popular among the biking crowd, the forum erupted with comments, links and stories.
A community of angry mountain bikers grew up around the threat. It's exactly the kind of thing you want to happen — except on your turf.
We post links to our stories on a statewide listserv primarily used by environmental activists. Sometimes discussion of those stories erupts there instead of on our site.
That's just a reality of online news. You may initiate it, but the community decides where it will happen. It's frustrating when your efforts produce community elsewhere.
Yet it's important activity to track as you justify your impact to funders.
Great Lakes Echo Editor David Poulson is the associate director of Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. A version of this article was first written for J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and appears on the Knight Citizen News Network.
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Early in 2007, glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth was confirmed in Tennessee. Now, a year later, giant ragweed has been added to the official glyphosate-resistant list.
In a number of Tennessee counties, giant ragweed "just isn't being controlled with Roundup in cotton and soybeans," says Larry Steckel, row crop weed specialist at the University of Tennessee.
"Lake and Lauderdale counties are, by far, the two counties with the most affected acreage. I'm sure there is some resistance in Dyer County, too. I just haven't had the chance to take a boom out and do the work yet. That will come.
"Really, all five of the counties (adjacent to the Mississippi River) — Shelby, Tipton, Lauderdale, Dyer and Lake — have resistant giant ragweed. One of the worst cropping field areas for it is around Ripley. There's also a fair amount of it around Ridgely, in Lake County."
For several years before confirmation, Palmer amaranth, a pigweed, was suspected of resistance. The screening process to prove resistance, or tolerance, can take much greenhouse work.
"To prove a weed resistant means spraying it with Roundup and having the plants live and produce seed. Then, that seed is grown out and must live through Roundup applications. We finally got that process done for Palmer pigweed in late 2006."
In late January, Steckel and colleagues finished the same work on giant ragweed. Proper testing completed, both resistant weeds are now listed with the International Survey of Resistant Weeds (www.weedscience.org) led by Ian Heap (see http://deltafarmpress.com/news/070117-weed-resistance/index.html).
How did Steckel find the resistant giant ragweed?
"When Ripley-area farmers were unable to control it with Roundup, I traveled there. I sprayed 40 ounces of Roundup on it at about 3 inches tall and it did nothing. I sprayed another 88 ounces of Roundup WeatherMax at 6 inches tall. Those lived. I then sprayed 88 ounces again at 10 inches tall. That's a lot of Roundup and the ragweed came through fine."
The weeds did so well, "they reached head-high and went to seed, which I collected. Bob Scott and Jason Norsworthy (both weed scientists/researchers with the University of Arkansas) have been screening ragweed in Arkansas — they have a good check system, good greenhouses, and are already set up for the research. So I sent some of this Tennessee seed to them."
As of early February, Norsworthy had put 44 ounces of Roundup WeatherMax — a 2X rate — on some plants grown from seed collected in Tennessee's Lauderdale County. After 43 days, all the susceptible check plants were dead. Meanwhile, all the Tennessee plants were alive.
"That helps confirm what we'd already seen here."
How about control options?
"I've been trying to look at a bunch of (preplant herbicides)," says Steckel. "But it was so dry last year, (they) wouldn't work. So I have some suggestions on post applications, not preplants. Hopefully, we'll get some rain this year that will activate the preplants and we can check them out."
Right now — based largely on research done on soybeans in Lake County — "the best game in town for resistant giant ragweed in soybeans is 0.6 ounce of FirstRate and 44 ounces of WeatherMax. That's the only thing I saw working as a post application once the weed got 4 to 6 inches tall."
Unfortunately last year the treatment cost about $35 per acre. Even more unfortunate: this year, with the higher price of Roundup, it'll cost well over $40 per acre.
For cotton, the best control Steckel found "was .15 ounce of Envoke. That killed some of them and stunted the others enough to where I could see some height separation between the giant ragweed and cotton. Then we ran over the crop with a hood and applied 29 ounces of Ignite. That was the only way I found to manage the weeds."
How well did it work? "In the cotton, I could control everything between the rows. But where I couldn't get the hood over them, some of the weeds lived. We didn't get 100 percent control."
Some of the giant ragweed in soybeans also lived after the FirstRate application. "We killed most of them, but others struggled on. They didn't appear to be as competitive."
How resistant is the giant ragweed Steckel has dealt with? "I put a quart of Roundup on my check and it looked like I'd applied water — the giant ragweed was head-high and you couldn't even see the soybeans. Where I put out the 44 ounces of Roundup and 0.6 ounce of FirstRate, you could see the soybeans — the giant ragweed was stunted under them, or dead."
Steckel has faced a frequent barrage of control queries during winter meetings. "Farmers are worried, especially with the giant ragweed. Everyone has picked up on Palmer pigweed being an issue and the need for preplant herbicides, particularly in soybeans. Then going over-the-top with good pigweed residual — like Dual or Reflex."
One thing that surprises the researcher is how many people claim Palmer pigweed is only a problem in western Tennessee. "I spoke with growers having control problems with giant ragweed from Knoxville to Ripley. They all have it and it's creeping into fields."
Giant ragweed is described by Steckel as a "ditch-weed," much as marestail once was. Resistant marestail has since moved quickly through much of the Mid-South through ample, wind-blown seed.
With giant ragweed, "one of my top recommendations so far is to understand it's largely confined to field edges and let's keep it there. Many farmers clean ditches and move soil into their fields. That's how a problem can really get going. After moving the dirt, the farmer farms the field as they normally have with Roundup. When Roundup isn't controlling the giant ragweed, pretty soon the field will be covered with it.
"So I'm stressing that if resistant giant ragweed isn't across the whole field, keep it in the ditches. Prevention at that stage is well worth the effort.
"Once resistant giant ragweed gets into a soybean field, I don't know of a cheap way to control it. And in cotton, there's not a great way to control it either."
Steckel, who is constantly hearing about and looking into suspiciously resilient weed species, says the confirmed incidents of resistance could be just the start. "I think we'll see more — this is just the tip of the iceberg. We've got to begin managing it better using (preplant herbicides) and residuals over-the-top. That's the only way I know we can do it."
And since glyphosate prices have jumped so much in the new year, "the (preplant herbicides) — particularly in soybeans — make economic sense. They basically replace a Roundup application and may mean cutting an over-the-top Roundup application."
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Holiday is the youngest player in Sixers franchise history to be named an All-Star.
Tim Duncan was selected to his 14th All-Star game, Spurs teammate Tony Parker is joining him, and the Chicago Bulls also had two reserves chosen Thursday.
Joakim Noah and Luol Deng were picked from the Bulls, who have stayed in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race despite the season-long absence of point guard Derrick Rose. Noah is one of five first-time All-Stars for the East, along with New York's Tyson Chandler, Indiana's Paul George, and Cleveland's Kyrie Irving.
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The co-MVP of the 2000 All-Star game joined a group that includes Michael Jordan for fifth-most selections. Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett, both voted to start, and Shaquille O'Neal all were picked 15 times. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the career leader as a 19-time All-Star.
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With centers Chandler and Noah, East coaches passed on Brooklyn's Brook Lopez, the leading scorer for a resurgent team that is right behind the Knicks for the Atlantic Division lead. Perennial All-Stars Deron Williams and Joe Johnson of the Nets also missed out, as did Boston's Paul Pierce.
Lee gave the Warriors their first All-Star since Latrell Sprewell in 1997, but coach Mark Jackson and his team hoped for more. However, Stephen Curry wasn't selected despite averaging 20.9 points - the league's eighth-leading scorer and the highest one who won't be in Houston for the Feb. 17 showcase.
Voted as East starters by fan voting along with Garnett were Miami's LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, New York's Carmelo Anthony and Boston's Rajon Rondo.
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The following report, titled "State Sponsors: Iran," was published by the Council on Foreign Relations on October 13, 2011. Introduction The U.S. State Department considers Iran the world's "most active state sponsor of terrorism." U.S. officials say Iran provides funding, weapons, training, and sanctuary to numerous terrorist groups--most notably in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon--posing a security concern to the international community. Iran's declarations that it has successfully enriched uranium and developed new missile technology have heightened alarm in the United States and other countries that the Islamic Republic might transfer weapons of mass destruction to militants or armed groups. Iran's leaders, who deny allegations they support terrorism, assert their rights under an international treaty to pursue nuclear power and insist their efforts are for peaceful purposes. But the international community remains unconvinced, imposing a growing list of sanctions against Tehran. Financial pressure has been applied by the UN Security Council, the European Union, international financial bodies, and a number of individual countries, including the United States. Does Iran sponsor terrorism?
The United States has accused Iran of sponsoring terrorist organizations for decades, but in the post-9/11 era, the allegations have taken on added significance. Despite Iran's assistance following the U.S.-led campaign to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan, Iran was labeled part of an axis of evil--which also included Iraq and North Korea--by President George W. Bush in 2002. In March 2006, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "Iran has been the country that has been in many ways a kind of central banker for terrorism in important regions like Lebanon through Hezbollah in the Middle East, in the Palestinian Territories, and we have deep concerns about what Iran is doing in the south of Iraq." For these reasons, in October 2007 the United States added Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its list of foreign terrorist organizations, and has continued to link economic sanctions to alleged support for militants. In June 2010, the UN Security Council approved a fourth round of sanctions, expanding on its list of targeted Iranian entities--including members of the IRGC.
Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell told CFR.org in June 2007 there is "overwhelming evidence" that Iran supports terrorists in Iraq and "compelling" evidence that it does the same in Afghanistan. Iran has repeatedly denied involvement in attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, though in October 2008, a top Iranian military commander did acknowledge Iran supplies weapons to "liberation armies" in the Middle East. Western intelligence officials insist Iran's malfeasance is widespread. According to the State Department's 2010 Country Reports on Terrorism, the IRGC, and more specifically the elite Quds Force, remains Iran's "primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad." An unclassified Defense Department report on Iran's military power from April 2010 made similar claims. And according to declassified intelligence reports released by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point in October 2008, Iranian support to militants in Iraq has included "paramilitary training, weapons, and equipment." Similar meddling is believed to be ongoing in Afghanistan. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, speaking with journalists in March 2010 in Kabul, said Iran was supplying weapons to fighters in southern Afghanistan.
The U.S. government first listed Iran as a terrorist sponsor in January 1984. Among Iran's alleged activities have been the following:
How is Iran governed?
Since a 1979 revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the U.S.-backed regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the country has been governed by Shiite Muslim clerics committed to a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei serves as commander-in-chief of the armed and police forces; the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the state ministry in control of television and radio; and appoints the head of key state institutions, from the military to the country's judiciary. The Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), currently headed by Saeed Jalili, doubles as Iran's top negotiator on nuclear issues; the council enjoys close relations with Ayatollah Khamenei, who has final say over all SNSC decisions. The SNSC is composed mostly of top officials from the ministries of foreign affairs, intelligence, and interior, as well as military leaders from the army and the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's main security apparatus formed in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The power of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the popularly elected president, is checked by the supreme leader. Ahmadinejad, who has aroused controversy by calling for Israeli's elimination, has vigorously supported the country's nuclear energy program while denying any military connection. What is the government's stance on al-Qaeda?
Although al-Qaeda and Iran are seemingly on opposite ends of the religious and ideological spectrum (al-Qaeda is a Sunni extremist militant group, while Iran is predominantly Shia), some Western analysts believe Tehran has sought to leverage the militant group against U.S. interests. These ties were most notably described by the 9/11 Commission, which revealed that senior al-Qaeda figures maintained close ties to Iranian security officials and had frequently traveled across Iran's border. At least eight of the fourteen Saudi "muscle" operatives selected for the 9/11 operations traveled through Iran in the months before the attacks, though it's unclear whether cooperation was informal or officially sanctioned. In recent years, Iran's ties to al-Qaeda have become increasingly murky. In 2010, Iran reportedly began releasing detained al-Qaeda operatives, a move that prompted speculation among U.S. intelligence officials that Iran was seeking to replenish al-Qaeda's ranks. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, as many as twenty members of Osama bin-Laden's family have lived in a compound in Iran since September 11, 2001, while bin Laden's son and high-ranking advisors to his father have been able to easily slip in and out of the country. What terrorist groups are linked to Iran?
U.S. officials say Iran mostly backs Islamist groups, including the Lebanese Shiite militants of Hezbollah (which Iran helped found in the 1980s) and Palestinian terrorist groups like Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
There has also been speculation that Iran encouraged Hezbollah's July 2006 attack on Israel to deflect international attention from its nuclear weapons program. Kenneth Katzman, a specialist in Middle Eastern affairs with the Congressional Research Service, questions this assertion, but notes that while Iran "likely did not instigate" the 2006 war, Iran has long been Hezbollah's "major arms supplier." The U.S. Department of Defense estimates Iranian support to Hezbollah at roughly $100 million to $200 million annually. And Iran is suspected of providing training and arms shipments to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, including, according to the U.S. State Department, "small arms and associated ammunition, rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, 107mm rockets, and plastic explosives." Does Iran have weapons of mass destruction?
In April 2010, a U.S. Defense Department report on Iran's military power suggested the Islamic Republic may not have made a decision to build a bomb. Instead, Tehran "is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons, if it chooses to do so," the Pentagon said. Yet recent nuclear power-related advances have led some to question Iran's motivations. With help from Russia, Iran is operating a nuclear power plant at Bushehr, but Western officials believe that Iran is more interested in developing a nuclear weapon than in producing nuclear energy. Since 2003, the United States and international allies have pursued political and economic policies, including sanctions, meant to prevent Iran from adapting its nuclear program to military applications.
These efforts have had a limited impact. In April 2006, Ahmadinejad announced Iran had successfully enriched uranium. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in May 2010 that Iran had produced over 5,300 pounds of low-enriched uranium--enough nuclear fuel to, with further enrichment, make two nuclear weapons. In late 2010, the IAEA also reported Iran has begun enriching uranium at higher levels of efficiency, a process that could speed up its conversion of uranium to weapons-grade purity.
There is also speculation that Iran has advanced in the development of nonnuclear weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. government says Iran "may have already" stockpiled chemicals that can induce bleeding, blistering, and choking, as well as the bombs and artillery shells to deliver these agents. U.S. officials say Iran has an active biological weapons program, driven in part by its acquisition of "dual-use" technologies--supplies and machinery that can be put to either harmless or deadly uses. Some weapons experts say the Iranian programs started after the country's forces were struck by Iraqi chemical attacks in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. But analyst Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies urges caution, noting that "any analysis of Iran's biological weapons effort must be even more speculative than an analysis of its chemical and nuclear weapons efforts, and the details of its missile programs." Does Iran have missiles that can deliver weapons of mass destruction?
Iran has hundreds of Scuds and other short-range ballistic missiles. It has also manufactured and flight-tested the Shahab-3 missile, which has a range of 1,300 kilometers--enough to hit Israel or Saudi Arabia. Moreover, Iran is developing missiles with even greater range, including one that it says will be used to launch satellites but that experts say could also be used as an intercontinental ballistic missile. In March 2006, Iran claimed it had successfully tested a missile capable of evading radar and hitting multiple targets. A month later, Daniel Poneman, then a senior fellow at the Forum for International Policy and former special assistant to the president and senior director for nonproliferation and export controls at the National Security Council, said at a CFR symposium on Iran that "They could use trucks for delivery systems. I think just as the bomb-making is easier than getting the HEU [highly enriched uranium], the delivery is much easier than making a bomb." Which countries have supplied Iran with missile technology?
Russia, China, and North Korea. Pakistan may also have been a supplier, though Pakistani and Iranian officials deny this.
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Mike's latest books are both published by Prime: Disturbing Muses and Strange Wisdoms of the Dead (forthcoming). He lives in Roanoke, Virginia with his wife, Anita, and works as a reporter for a Roanoke newspaper.
When did you begin writing poetry? Why SF poetry?I never made a conscious choice to write sf poetry. It's what I write naturally.
I discovered or was exposed to all my main reading staples during a rather miserable childhood spent for the most part in a tiny Appalachian coal mining town. I was entranced as a kid by The Lord of the Rings, and chasing down more of what I got from those books, in isolation from any "communal" guidance, led me in all sorts of directions, from H.P. Lovecraft to T.S. Eliot.
As a teenager I subscribed to Asimov's Science Fiction, and found poetry there. I remember a piece that used parallel columns to describe the points of view of twins isolated on different planets. I love visual shenanigans within text, and that poem really grabbed my imagination (I've probably overabused that same technique in my own poems). Even the Dangerous Visions anthologies, which I read as an undergraduate, included poetry. So when I wrote poetry, it always had sf or fantasy elements.
When I really started trying to get work published my main focus was on fiction. While my short stories fared reasonably well in the group seminars in graduate school, my poems were always brutally savaged. I became determined to produce poems that would survive the workshop, and so wound up cranking out a lot of poetry, which started selling. Laurel Winter especially gave me a regular venue at Tales of the Unanticipated, buying poems that had to have caused the typesetter fits.
What's next for Mythic Delirium now that you've separated it from DNA Publications?In a way, it's back to the beginning. I began Mythic Delirium back in 1998 as sort of a self-dare. I printed two issues, sensed almost no interest from the small press community, and decided to kill it.
But I had sent copies of those two early issues to Ellen Datlow, and she included my little zine in her informal "best magazines of the year" list. After that, Warren Lapine asked me to revive the magazine for DNA, and I agreed to after much soul searching. Now, six years and 12 issues later, I've published folks from Joe Haldeman to Sonya Taaffe to Theodora Goss to Ursula Le Guin, and after even more soul searching I've decided that I know enough that I no longer need to ride piggyback on DNA. So off I've jumped.
Mythic Delirium will never be a financial juggernaut. But I got a happy chill when I opened up the subscriber list file and saw that a few of the folks who bought subscriptions back when I put out my very first cheap-inkjet-cover issue are still with me.
The biggest challenge is quickly getting Mythic Delirium to a point to where it can support itself. It's got to; my wife's a full-time student and I ain't a rich man. But that actually appears quite doable, and so far, so good.
How did Alchemy of Stars come about?It didn't begin with me. Roger Dutcher volunteered back in 2001 to put together a long overdue collection of all the poems that had won the Rhysling Award. SFPA had been giving out Rhyslings since 1978 -- but by the time I joined, in 1998, the sum of the Rhysling winners seemed nothing more than a cool-looking list of titles in the back of the annual chapbook of Rhysling nominees. I mean, where could you even find Gene Wolfe's "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps"?
Roger soldiered on alone for three years, and found the last MIA author in January '04. By that time, I'd become very active in SFPA, and, God help me, had declared my intention to run for President, so I jumped in. We couldn't find an arrangement with a publisher that worked, but after a year with myself and other new officers in charge, SFPA's financial situation radically changed for the good, and we were able to publish it ourselves. So far, the book's earned SFPA a nice chunk of change, which is exactly what we hoped for.
How does having some money in the accounts change what SFPA does and will do?Well, publishing Star*Line and the Rhysling anthologies and presenting the Rhysling Awards will always be our main business. But a lot of things are in our reach now that weren't before.
A small advance party from SFPA landed at this year's ReaderCon and mingled with the natives without any trouble. We had a dealer's table that earned a tidy profit, and I hope the poetry reading and award announcement we did will become an annual tradition. We're now eyeballing the possibility of a similar presence at WorldCon, and it's been nice, when folks have pointed out the expense of a table there, to be able to say, "We can cover that."
I hope to see SFPA throw its newfound health (not wealth, mind you, but health) behind promoting speculative poetry in any way it can. But what's the most effective way to do that? We're up against a daunting problem: in a world where most people don't have poetry in their lives and don't miss it, how do we make people start caring? It's a more practical goal, I think, to find ways to trawl for the people that do care, and let them know we're here and creating some of the strangest, most provocative verse you're going to find.
Is there an advantage for a writer in identifying as an SF poet rather than as just a poet?Frankly, no. SF markets generally pay something while most lit mags don't, but wearing an "SF Poet" armband isn't going to land you a $100,000 arts grant or ensure that your books sell thousands of copies.
But I'm willing to wear that armband, not because I think it's a great sales gimmick, but because it accurately describes what I do. When I perform one of my poems at the improv theater here in Roanoke, I don't stand up before each piece and say, "Hi! I'm a Science Fiction Poet!" -- but the audience can tell I'm doing something really, really different. It's something I do at practically a genetic level. Whatever I do creatively is done in terms of sf or fantasy.
Interestingly, there's overlap between themes in "fantasy poetry" and the so-called "mainstream" to a degree that the two spill over: consider the "incubus possession" poem that appeared in a recent issue of Poetry, or poets like Fred Chappell turning up in Weird Tales. Right now, Prime Books is experimenting along that blurred line with the Jabberwocky anthologies, and with a number of fantasy-themed poetry collections, by folks like Sonya Taaffe, Cat Valente, Tim Pratt and me.
And that's caused me to experiment. My first Prime Book, Disturbing Muses, is already out, and it's like nothing I've ever done before: a cycle of lengthy poems about modern masters like Goya and Picasso, that can be read as dark fantasy biographies or maybe as meditations on the destructive power of creativity. The second in the pipeline, Strange Wisdoms of the Dead, which also holds fiction, could be taken as a celebration of Apocalypse; as a writer, I love to rip reality part. It's my hope that anyone who reads Strange Wisdoms will have any preconceptions about sf poetry thoroughly smashed.